Then, let us not forget, in about a week and a half, The Twelve Tribes Compound Summit will hit Philly, OMG–talk about crazy logistics and a packed weekend! Whew! The City of Philadelphia’s entertainment and event portal, GOPHILLY.COM put us up in cyberspace That was also very, very cool. We posted artists that are coming and panelists, so if you haven’t been by www.NeteruTour.com stop by and check it out, the site has been updated.

Meanwhile, I’m working on werewolves and other things that go bump in the night (yay!) I was having “Damali & Carlos” withdrawal until I began working on the graphic novel–but Sasha and Hunter are kinda like methodone (BIG SMILE.)

OK… gotta run… we also updated the appearances page at www.vampirehuntress.com as well as at www.LeslieEsdaileBanks.com with a whirlwind tour. A DC stop will be added this week, too

Back to work for me… you all have a good one and stay in the Light!

BIG PHILLY HUG (and go Steelers! I’m a PA resident, smile, what can I say?! LOL!)

Just got back from The Bahamas… was at the Come Out & Play Event hosted by marketing maven, Lissa Woodson, and we had a ball! I’m still struggling with downloading pics off my camera (LOL), but Lisa has some crazy blackmail shots of me and my cousin Vicky playing jax like we used to a hundred years ago on the porches of Philly We almost sat on the dance floor to get down and get serious old skool style, LOL! But that would have messed up the folks doing the cha-cha slide!

The event was awesome… Atlantis was GORGEOUS! We walked through glass tunnels with sharks and stingrays overhead, watched them feed the sharks, rode on water tubes… and my daughter and her girlfriend were brave enough to slide down the pyramid slides. I would have needed paramedics, so my sister (who also went) and my cousins, hey—we went to the casino (that’s how you know you’re getting old—we left the youngins to do their water sport madness, ha ha ha!) We took in a little local flavor, going down to the “fish fry” – which is a strip of local restaurants and the main drag in Nassau – before heading back to Paradise Island for the sugar sand beaches and balmy blue surf.

Then got back here just in time to see, what? THE PHILLIES WON THE WORLD SERIES!!!!! Philly is on FIYAH, LOL! Between all that I’m still trying to get this book finished in fits and starts. Tonight my excuse is that it’s Halloween and I have to hand out candy—BIG GRIN… it’s all good!

Much love… Trick or Treat!
Leslie

Also, I know a LOT of folks have been asking for one last BTB for the VHL. Right now I’m working on a YA, the first book in the new young adult series. So, if you guys let me get past my newly revised (from Nov. 1 to Nov 15th deadline), I’ll see if I can get one done in December. But here’s the problem, while working on the YA stuff, I cannot allow Carlos and Damali or any of those hot couples from the Neteru Guardian Team to enter into my mind, LOL–muy caliente! Nope. It takes my brain somewhere else, then it’s too hard to get back into a teenage mindset. Crazy, but the one deep thing is, I really found my genre-hopping limit. I’ve learned that I can do werewolves and vampires, crime, and romance all at the same time, but YA… wow, I just can’t think on that plane and then do the sizzling scenes needed for my darker paranormal work and vice versa. (Maybe that means I’m not as crazy as I thought, smile! That’s a good thing I can’t mentally blend youth with the other stuff, I think.) How much it all lived inside my head while writing it, that was truly a personal revelation. I mean, as writers we know that we have to noodle things in our brains for a while, but just how much you take your head into a world isn’t apparent until you can’t do it… ok, I’ve been up way too early this morning and therefore babbling — but you know what I mean.

Soooo, I just ask y’all to be patient with me as I explore some new mental territory, BIG SMILE!

Last thing… while the tickets for the Neteru Tour are sold out–there are still tickets for the Saturday night event… so you don’t have to feel left out. I’ll be writing a special epilogue to the epilogue (smile) for book #12, The Thirteenth, for the event program book, too. That night will be FUN and you’ll get to meet a lot of the folks you probably interact with in the forum and on the yahoogroup… so we’d love to have you if you can make it.

OK, that’s my two cents for the day… back to teen adventures, LOL! Hugs and much love to all, and THANK YOU for always having my back!

Stay in The Light… Leslie!

Hugs and Love, Leslie!